Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Statius / Thebaid / Cycles / Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS 76 (Northern Italy, c1380-1390)
Ancient / Statius / Thebaid / Book X: In the night after the battle the Argives attack the sleeping Thebans in their camp, battle at the walls of Thebes / vv. 262-325: The Argives enter the Theban camp and slay the sleeping soldiers
Ancient / Statius / Thebaid / Book X: In the night after the battle the Argives attack the sleeping Thebans in their camp, battle at the walls of Thebes / vv. 907-939: Capaneus who is blaspheming Jupiter whilst scaling the walls of Thebes is killed by a thunderbolt

Further details

Artist or creator

Altichiero (born 1330, died before 1393) (attributed)

Date

1380 (before) - 1390

Location

Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, 76

Book, text or document (source of image)

Statius (Publius Papinius Statius). Thebaid.

Notes on photograph

Collection

Hamburg stamp (Bibliothek Warburg)

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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